
Howell Evans
Actor · 1928 – 2014 · Maesteg, Wales, UK
Movies14
Movie6.4DramaComedyWhen an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1995 · 330 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceA politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Undertaking Betty
2002 · 118 votes
Movie6.8ThrillerSly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
The Ipcress File
1965 · 362 votes
Movie5.9ComedyJohn Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Only Two Can Play
1962 · 32 votes
Movie6.1ComedyCrimeBiopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Mr. Nice
2010 · 169 votes
Movie5.6ComedyThe Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.
Down Among the Z Men
1952 · 8 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieWhen a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
The Coming Out Party
1965 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyFormer Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home.
Old Scores
1991 · 2 votes
Movie5.5MusicTV MovieIn this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965 · 8 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaTwenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the walk, but this time they are joined by a forty year old wife and mother who is in the midst of a mid-life crisis.
Arthur's Dyke
2001 · 5 votes
Movie3.0DramaTV MovieThe Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be their sponsors, in an attempt to improve their game.
Defrosting the Fridge
1989 · 3 votes
Movie7.9DramaTV MovieHenry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
The Hallelujah Handshake
1970 · 7 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaKen Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Three Clear Sundays
1965 · 4 votes
Movie4.5CrimeCrime reporter Gilbert Harding recites the story of a crime to a newspaper editor
Behind the Headlines
1953 · 2 votes
Series6
TV6.0DramaA series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.
The Play on One
1988 · 3 votes
TV6.5KidsFamilyTracy Beaker is a 10-year-old girl who has been placed in a children's home. Tracy makes new friends along the way and causes mischief wherever she goes.
The Story of Tracy Beaker
2002 · 31 votes
- TV8.0Drama
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Festival
1963 · 1 votes
TV7.9ComedyOpen All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.
Open All Hours
1976 · 61 votes
- TV
"The Sherman Plays" is a series of television adaptations of plays originally staged at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. The series, produced by HTV, ran from 1993 to 1997. It featured a variety of dramas, some of which were specifically written for the series.
TV7.6FamilyAquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998. An episode was aired once a week, and was based on the story of two boys, Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds, who find a spacecraft when digging in a field. It was based on the book Aquila by British author Andrew Norriss and set in Bristol.
Aquila
1997 · 7 votes